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FIVB World Congress
re-elects Ruben Acosta as President
 Tokyo,
25th October 2006 – FIVB President Dr Ruben Acosta was
re-elected for a further four-year term of office after
delegates at the 30th FIVB World Congress, representing 196 of
the FIVB’s 219 national federations, unanimously approved a vote
by acclamation. Following the formal election ceremony,
delegates heard progress reports on the future international
Volleyball competitions covering the 2007-2010 quadrennial.
Dr Ruben Acosta Hernandez has been President of the
International Volleyball Federation since 1984 and is only the
second President of the organisation after its founding
President, Frenchman Paul Libaud. Numerous delegates from across
the world took the floor to praise Dr Ruben Acosta’s leadership
of the organisation for the past 22 years and a motion to
re-elect the President by acclamation was unanimously approved.
FIVB President Dr Ruben Acosta started his next four-year term
of office with a standing ovation from the floor. Closing the
Congress, President Acosta spoke of the sense of unity he felt
from the biggest-ever participation in an FIVB Congress. “We
have openly shown that we are a democratic institution,” he
said. “We are a strong federation and the best days of
Volleyball still lie ahead.”
The final afternoon of the Congress saw progress reports from
the organisers of forthcoming international Volleyball and Beach
Volleyball events. The list started with the 2006 FIVB World
Championships (men and women), commencing next Tuesday 31st
October in Japan with the women’s tournament, with finals in
Osaka on 16th November and from 17th November until 3rd December
for the men’s tournament, with finals in the capital Tokyo. The
major international FIVB events already secured over the next
four years are:
The 2007 Men’s Junior World Championships, which will be held in
Casablanca and Rabat, Morocco from 7th – 16th July 2007
The 2007 Women’s Junior World Championships, which will be held
in Suphanburi, Thailand, from 19th-27th July 2007
The 2007 World League Final Round in Rome, Italy (July 2007)
The 2007 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Gstaad,
Switzerland from 24th-29th July 2007.
The 2007 Youth World Championships for Boys and Girls, which
will be held in Baja California, Mexico, from 3rd-12th August
2007 (Girls) and 15th-26th August (Boys)
The 2007 World Cups (men and women) in Japan, which will be the
first qualifying event for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, from
2nd November – 16th November for the women’s event and 18th
November – 2nd December for the men’s event. The matches will be
played in 13 different Japanese cities: Fukuoka, Kumamoto,
Hamamatsu, Hiroshima, Nagoya, Okayama, Osaka, Matsumoto,
Saitama, Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo and Toyama.
Furthermore, spectacular venues in the heart of the cities were
presented for both the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the 2012
London Olympic Games. In Beijing, Volleyball will be played at
the Capitol Indoor Stadium and the Beijing Institute of
Technology Gymnasium and Beach Volleyball at a purpose-built
facility in the exclusive Chaoyang Park district. In London,
Volleyball will be played at Earls Court and Beach Volleyball at
Horseguards Parade in the heart of the city.
Among the 196 national federations represented at the 30th FIVB
World Congress, six celebrated the 25th anniversary of their
affiliation (Afghanistan, British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, Nepal,
Nicaragua and Palestine) and 13 countries who were affiliated in
1955 celebrated 50 years of solidarity with the only world
governing body of the sports of Volleyball and Beach Volleyball
(Netherlands Antilles, Colombia, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican
Republic, Ethiopia, People’s Republic of Korea, Mexico,
Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Sri Lanka and Syria).
Delegates unanimously approved Dubai, which was the sole
candidate, as the host city for the 31st FIVB World Congress in
2008, which will be held in June 2008 before the start of the
Beijing Olympic Games
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